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A. D. PENWIGK. SEWING MACHINE GUIDE.

No. 599,444. Patented Feb. 22, 1898.

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,Z lwerewa. dZZerZJZma/M NITED STATES ALBERT D. FENWIOK, OFPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE FENWIOK COLLAR AND CUFFMACHINE COMPANY, OF PORTLAND,

MAINE.

SEWING-MACHINE GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,444, dated February22, 1898.

Application filed July 8, 1897. Serial No. 643,829. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT D. FENWIOK, of Philadelphia, county ofPhiladelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement inSewing-Machine Guides, of which the following'description, in connectionwith the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters andfigures on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a guide moreespecially adapted to be used in connection with a sewing-machine whenstitching together collars, cuffs, wristbands, neckbands, &c.

My improved guide contains several movable members, as a main andauxiliary edgegage and a combined band and top guide, each of which hasits own appropriate Work to do in the production of each collar, andthese parts are so connected and combined that they may be quicklybrought into their proper operative positions without loosening anyscrews or making any adjustments.

In the production of a turn-over collar the material comprising the bandmust be united at its ends and at what is to constitute the lower edgeof the band and then the top part of the collar must be guided andinserted into the space between the open plies at the top of the band.

Figure 1 shows in side elevation part of a sewing-machine frame with oneof my improved collar-guides in position; Fig. 2, a top or plan view ofthe bed-plate and presser-foot with my guide attached forturn-over-collar work as it will appear when starting to stitch togetherthe plies of the band; Fig. 3, a like view showing the parts changed inposition, as When putting in the top of the collar. Fig. 4 shows myimproved guide in position 'for stitching one part of a stand-up collar.Fig. 5 shows the said parts in another position, as when in therentering corner at the junction of the top with the lower part of saidcollar; and Fig. 6, an enlarged side elevation of the top and bandguide.

The bed-plate A, overhanging arm A, needle-bar B, needle I), andpresser-foot Z) are and may be all of any usual or suitable kind.Mynovel guide presents a base 0, which may be provided with any usualslot 0 for the reception of a clamp-screw 0 by which to confine the basein adjusted position on the usual bed. The base has a stud-screw (Z, onwhich is pivoted an arm or lever cl, having, as shown, a knob (V, andsaid lever has its acting end convexed to form a main edge-gage (Z andthe end of said arm or lever most remote from said end 01 has jointed toit at d a hook (1 which is adapted to be readily engaged with ordisengaged from a post 6. (Shown best in Figs. 4. and 5.) The hook isshown in engagement with said post in Figs. 1 to 3, and a spring dattached to the hook and bearing on the post, serves to hold the hook inengagement with the post; but in Figs. 4 and 5 this hook is disengagedfrom the post e and is engaged with a post f. (Shown best in Figs. 2 and3.)

The base chas secured to it a locking device g to hold the lever d inits inoperative position, (see Figs. 3 and 5,) it then being turnedaside to permit other parts of the attachment to be put into operativeposition.

The post 6 rises from an arm e, attached to a slide-bar 6 provided atits front end with a peculiarshaped combined band and top guide, (shownbest in Fig. 1 and enlarged in Fig. 6,) said guide having two openmouths 2 3, in which will be inserted, respectively,

against the walls at 5 two parts of the open top edge of the collar-bandh, (shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3,) while the top of the collar to bepresented between the open upper edge of the band is inserted in thespace 6 with its edge against the Wall 7.

The post f rises from a barf, having at its acting end a downturnedfinger f (shown best in Fig. 1 and by dotted lines in the otherfigures,) said finger constituting an auxiliary edge-gage.

The bar f, carrying the auxiliary edgegage, is made movable toward andfrom the presser-foot only in a straight line, and when the main pivotededge-gage d is in its operative position the auxiliary edge-gage liesdirectly under the bar 01, the bar cl carrying this edge-gage at eachtime it lies back away from the presser-foot.

Referring to Fig. 2, the main edge-gage d is shown in operativeposition, and the auxiliary edge-gage f is directly in line with theoperative part of the main edge-gage and below the lever d, carrying themain edge-gage, so that when the main edge-gage is turned aside theauxiliary edge-gage is obliged only to move in a direct line into itsoperative position, and it is not obliged to wait at all for the lever dto get out of the way.

In use let it be supposed that a turn-over collar is to be stitchedtogether. The operator will take the two or more pliesto enter into theband, they having their edges inturned, and will lay the said pliestogether with their inturned edges against each other, and in thiscondition the band will be put under the presser-foot, as shown in Fig.2, the edges of the said material being put against the main edge-gage01 and the stitching will preferably be started at the upper edge of theband at a distance from its end equal to the distance it is desired thatthe end of the band shall project beyond the end of the top of thecollar. The stitching will be run from this point to the end of theband, then across the end of the band, and along the lower edge of theband and across the other end. This operation leaves the most of the topof the band open, and now the top of the collar must be stitched intothis open part between the two or more plies of the band. Prior,however, to this latter operation, the band is removed from the machineand is turned over and turned end for end, so as to again put intoposition under the needle that part of the band at which the stitchingreferred to and already made in the band was started. The operator takeshold of the knob d and turns the lever d aside and puts it into theholding device 9, and in doing this the hook d in engagement with thepost 9 acts to slide forward the bar 6*, putting the combined band andtop guide into position at the needle, as shown in Fig. 3, and then thelower and upper parts of the open band will be put into the spaces 2 and3, (see Fig. 6,) and then the top of the collar will be put into thespace 6, the end of the top part of the collar farthest from theoperator being put against the stitches holding together the top of theband, the stitches first made in the upper edge of the band at a shortdistance from its end, and then the machine is started, the stitchingcommencing at the point referred to and passing through not only theband but also the top of the collar, and the material is fed, say, awayfrom the operator while the stitching is followed along the top of theband to the end of the top, when the lever cl is again turned to put theend d of the main gage in working position, and at the same timewithdrawing the combined band and top guide, and the end 61 acts toguide the band while stitching from the end of the top to the end of theband.

WVhen my attachment is used to stitch standing collars or cuffs, thecombined band and top guide is not then to be used, and for such workthe hook d is disengaged from the post e and is engaged with the post f,as in Figs. at and 5.

The stitching for a standing collar will preferably be commenced nearthe end of the lower edge of the collar, as best shown in Fig. 4, and atthat time the edge of the main gage cl will be in its operativeposition. From the position Fig. 4 the collar will be fed in thedirection of the arrow, and when the stitching reaches the corner 10 themachine will be stopped, and the main edge gage-will be turned into itsinoperative position, Fig. 5, thus putting the auxiliary gage f intoposition to receive against it the end 12 of the collar as the stitchingis being done across the end and about the corner 13 into the smallreentering angle 14 at the junction of the bottom and top parts of thecollar, said auxiliary gage remaining in such position until thestitching arrives at the upper corner 15 of the collar, when the maingage 61 will be again turned into operative position, and it in itsmovement will put the auxiliary gage into its inoperative position, (seeFig. 4,) and the stitching will be continued, using the main gage (1along the top edge of the collar until the opposite end of the topcorresponding to corner 15 is reached, when the machine will be againstopped, and the position of the main gage will be again changed,leaving the gage f in position while the end of the collar and part ofthe bottom part of the collar next to the upright edge of the end andabout the end is being stitched. Fig. 5 of the drawings shows the collarin this last position, and having stitched across the end 12 of thecollar, the end opposite the point 12, the main gage d is again put intooperative position to guide the lower edge 17 of the collar while it isbeing stitched to the point where the stitching commenced.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. In a guide of the classdescribed, abase, a main edge-gage 01 acombined band and top guide for receiving the band and top from oppositesides and maintaining the plies thereof properly superposed forstitching together, and connections between said main edge-gage and thecombined band and top guide, whereby when one is put into workingposition the other may be automatically put into its inoperativeposition, and vice versa, substantially as described.

2. A main edge-gage for use in stitching together collars and the like,it consisting of a base, a lever pivotally mounted on said base andprovided at one end with an edge-gage Li and a combined band and topguide, and jointed connections between said lever, and said combinedband and top guide, whereby by movement of the said lever it may be putinto, or out of operative position, and the comseaaaa a bined band andtop guide be moved simultaneously with the said lever, substantially asdescribed.

3. In a guide of the class described, a main edge-gage laterally movableinto inoperative position, combined with an auxiliary edgegagelongitudinally movable into operative,

position, the latter when in its inoperative position lying underneaththe main edge-gage, whereby the auxiliary gage may be moved directlyinto operative position without interference by or with the main gageand a connection between the main edge-gage and said auxiliaryedge-gage, substantially as described.

4. In a gage of the class described, a main edge-gage, made as a lever,an independent auxiliary edge-gage, and connections between and pivotedto the said main and the said auxiliary ed ge-gage whereby when the mained gegage is put into its operative position the auxiliary edge-gage isput into its inoperative position, and vice versa, substantially asdescribed.

5. In a gage of the class described, a base, a pivoted main edge-gage, alocking device to hold the said main edge-gage in its inoperativeposition, and a combined band and top guide, combined with means toremovably connect the said main edge-gage with the combined band and topguide, to operate substantially as described.

6. In a guide for collars and like work, a base, a main edge-gagepivotally mounted thereon, and a combined band and top guide arranged tobe slid back and forth longitudinally on said base; combined Withconnections between said pivoted main edge-gage, and said band and topguide, whereby the turning of said main edge-gage on its pivot effectsthe sliding of said combined band and top guide'into and out ofoperative position as required, substantially as described.

7. A guide for collars and like Work, comprising a plurality ofindependently-movable gage members, said members being independent andone of them being provided with means for moving the remaining membersas it is moved, said means being arranged to cooperate With either ofthe remaining members, as desired,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ALBERT D. FENWICJK.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, MARGARET A. DUNN.

